St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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L.L. Bean ,bloochcr” ■hoes Shoes, generic Hair, clean cut. richly moussed Make love, not Oxford Salvation Army Store shirt Pure silk tic wide and Cardigan sweater, fashionably oversized Surfer bracelets in pockets Hand symbolizing universal sign of peace Pleated slacks, straight with rolled-up cuffs Bell-bottomed pants, rolled Long hair, naturally set Face, clean shaven this is such a funny idea smile 70s vs. 80's 15

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SIGN THE TIMES a And the grass on the mall wasn’t the green kind. hose were the good old days. When leisure suits were in. and Charlie’s Angels was on. Moms were baking apple pies, and dads were making money. After the Big '69. the era of the Seventies erupted into a generation of deadheads and diseoes. Fat ties, bell-bottoms, and long hair clothed the student in his everyday life. Balding teachers dared to bare it all. Oh the times, oh the morals! Chaos lived at West 30th St. You were sitting at your usual lunch table, eating your Steak-um. when a sizzling potato bullet covered with ketchup smacked you across the face, so you hurled your cherry pie back at the assaulter. A daily occurence—without punishment to those who engaged in the culinary brawl. Such names as DeVinne. Rourke. Skerl. Heipp. Healey. Watson, and Ertle were the chief conspirators in the daily food fights. People nearly got killed crossing the street to Loyola. Mr. Johnson was hit. The rally thrived. A mangy dog accosted young boys for food. Grades were structured on a hundred-point system. Flando was not yet Commando. Styles was not in style. Plaid was a color. Ollie Luck threw for gold. The hair code was challenged. There was no CARE team. And the grass on the mall was not the green kind. Ziggy played guitar. People freely stripped themselves of their apparel and ran down the street. Brando turned down his Best Actor Oscar. The BeeGees had a Number One album. Star Wars. The Vietnam vets came home. Watergate Saturday Night Live lived. The Beatles died. A Democrat with a Southern accent and an irrepressible smile was elected Big Cheese. Henry Aaron hit his 715th homerun. ERA. Four dead in Ohio. Lucy left television—or did she? Then the eighties came. Everything changed. Leisure suits became extinct, and the Angels were replaced by Cosby. Arena football arrived. The Great One died. America won the gold in hockey. Moms were making money. and dads were baking apple pies. Bloom County. The deadheads became YUPPIES, and John Travolta became unemployed. SDI. Moammar Kadaffi threatened. Hulk Hogan. Skinny ties, straight-legs, and short hair clothed the student in his everyday life. Mary Lou Retton. Balding teachers devised new ways to cover their skin. Pac-man. Bono tried to play guitar, but broke his shoulder and left it to the Edge. Cats. And Mookie Wilson hit a foul ball. Oh the times, oh the morals! Order abounded at West 30th St. There were no conspirators. for Flando had become Commando. West 30th Street was lost to the bulldozer's plow. The students became the teachers. Mr. Johnson was mugged. The mangy dog died. Grades were structured on the 4-point system. Styles was in vogue. Roggie canned another jumper. The rally died. The hair code was enforced. The CARE team was formed. A lot of students were questioned. And the grass on the mall was green. 14A Day in the Life

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STUDY HELPS u Creative Cheating, of course. od. I wish I studied last night! Well. I had to finish up that graph for Algebra. Or was it for Chemistry? I could ... cheat. NO! • Yes! C'mon, it's not like I'm taking the whole test. All I need is that one vocabulary word, and the sentence is mine! But it’s wrong! Grow up. face reality! Well ... okay, but just this one word! STOP RIGHT THERE! screams the teacher, jabbing a three-foot pointer under the student's neck, lifting him off his seat. Words spew from his sadistic smile like Regan McNeil's in The Exorcist. I'm going to bite your eyeballs out and immerse them in saline! He swallows a breath and calms. For now. just sit down and think about what you've done.” The student shrinks back into his seat, trembling, a fraction of the man he was. Just for wanting to know what quotienscumque means. He thought about what he had done, and found that it would have been easier if he had prepared for the test. No. not studying! Creative cheating, of course! Time is the most important factor here. For the more creative hobbyist with time to burn, the possibilities are literally endless. Be warned, however, for even the most carefully crafted plan is not infallible. Your hard hours of shrewd scheming may be minutes of small talk in the teachers' lounge the next day. One of Mr. Knittel's favorite stories recounts the tale of a Greek student who asked if he could use his calculator during the test. Okay. Then again, why! Nevertheless, the kid punched those buttons with a passion. Purely out of curiosity. Mr. Knittel checked it out. Coincidently. the buttons on the calculator corresponded to Greek vocabulary. You figure it out. Another pioneer in the area of electronics is the guy who sacrificed his timepiece in the line of duty. The night before the test, he wrote a few hints on a few sheets of paper, then scrolled them up to needle-width for storage in his watch. The best feature about this plan was that is was re usable. And. of course, the fact that it worked perfectly. The award for Best Teacher Participation unanimously goes to Mr. Watson. This story, which is more myth than fact, had some say in the vote: Before Mr. Watson came to class, a student who happened to have the answers written out on a sheet decided to share his knowledge with the rest of the class, so he taped the sheet to the back of Mr. Watson's coat. Unwittingly. Mr. Watson put the jacket on. and all of the class passed. How Mr. Watson never found out I couldn’t tell you. Yes. all this goes on. Sure, we knew it. But there are a few who don’t. Mr. Toman reports that outside of a little writing on the desk, the students here rarely cheat. To what end do we have to go? 16 A Day in the Life